Consider the saxophone player's pandemic dilemma: How to play at home in a Japanese apartment, notorious for paper-thin walls, without making your neighbors want to kill you. In a pre-COVID-19 world, ...

Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operators offer tiny battery-powered synths and a range of sounds across a collection of six devices that cost $59 each. Czech synthesizer company Bastl Instruments has a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Noon Instruments Re-amping synthesizers - playing recordings through an amplifier and ...

Synth Library NYC aims to demystify these sometimes complicated, often expensive instruments into the hands of anyone who wants to try one. Synth Library now has 650 members. Once a month, several ...

Here's one out of left field. Turkish musician Gorkem Sen has invented a new kind of musical instrument that incorporates fretted strings, coiled springs and drum membranes to create a range of ...

Are you frustrated with the sheer weight of your hardware synthesizer? Of course not! But wouldn't it be fun to carry one around in your pocket? Probably! That's exactly what you can do with the Flash ...

A few years back, mathematician and musician Jules Hotrique combined two passions to develop a new arrangement of musical notes called the dualo principle. After creating a number of keyboard ...

The '80s had no shortage of massive-sounding synthesizers, but many of them have either gone out to pasture or are prohibitively expensive on the secondhand market. Software companies often try to ...

Dave Smith, an electronics pioneer whose creations of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the Prophet 5 synthesizer revolutionized popular music, died in Detroit. He was 72 and experienced ...